Third Conference of the Black Sea Project
The Economic and Social Development of the Port-Cities
of the
Southern Black Sea Coast,
th
Late 18 – Beginning of the 20 th century
Ionian University
and Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH
in collaboration with:
Boğaziçi University
THALES PROGRAMME
Reinforcement of the Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-institutional Research and Innovation
Ionian University: “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 18th-20th c.
Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy”
Istanbul
23 - 26 October 2014
Boğaziçi University
waters: duration, rhythms and hazards of the voyages
to Istanbul and Black Sea in the 19th century
Thursday 23 October
19.00 - Sismanoglio Megaro, Istiklal Cad. 60
Round Table on “The Rise of Ottoman and Venetian/
Ionian Greek Shipping, 1700-1821”
3. Feride Akin, (Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH /Univ. of Crete, Greece)
The development of the port of Istanbul, in the last
third of the 19th century
20.00 Welcome reception
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
Friday 24 October
11.30 – 13.30
Session II- Economic development of the port cities of
the southern shore
Chair: Vangelis Kechriotis
Boğaziçi University (Ibrahim Bodur Salonu)
09.00 – 9.15 Welcome remarks
Edhem Eldem, local organizer and Gelina Harlaftis, project coordinator
9.15 – 11.00
Session I - Istanbul and maritime trade
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis
1. Edhem Eldem, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Trade in the Black Sea through the lenses of the French
Chamber of Commerce’s Revue commerciale du Levant.”
2. Apostolos Delis, (Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH /Univ. of Crete, Greece) Navigating insidious
1. Mehmet Yavuz Erler, (19 May University of Samsun,
Turkey)
Refugees in the basin of the Canik mines: Greek Orthodox from mining to agriculture (1790-1884)
2. Stavros Anestidis, (Centre for Asia Minor Studies,
Greece)
Samsun (Amisos). Aspects of financial development
and cosmopolitanism in the late 19th c.
3. Ekin Mahmuzlu, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
The import-export trade of Trabzon in the 19th century
4. Evrydiki Sifneos, (IHS/ National Hellenic Research
Foundation, Athens, Greece)
THALES PROGRAMME
Reinforcement of the Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-institutional Research and Innovation
Ionian University: “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 18th-20th c.
Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy”
Was the extraction of coal at Kozlou and Zonguldak
mines profitable?
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.30
Session III- Urban development of the port cities
Chair: Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
1. Vasilis Colonas, (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Between two Empires; Architecture and Greek Communities on the shores of the Black Sea at the end of the 19th
century
2. Athina Vitopoulou, Alexandra Yerolympos, (University
of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Ottoman port cities of the Black Sea at the threshhold of
modernity
3. Maria Lekakou and Evangelia Stefanidaki (University
of the Aegean),
Is Cruise Tourism a catalyst for city revitalization? The
case of Black Sea cities
17.00- Transfer to Kabatas and boat trip to Hebeliada
(island of Chalki)
Saturday 25 October
Boğaziçi University (Demir Demirgil Salonu)
09.00 – 11.00
Session V. Trading with Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire (a)
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis
1. Sasha Halenko, (National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine)
Rise of the Ukrainian granary of Europe (13-18th centuries)
2. Panayotis Kapetanakis, (University of Greenwich/National Hellenic Research Foundation) From
Constantinople and Elgin to Odessa and Yeames: the
British flag entering the Black Sea (1797-1807) From
Constantinople and Elgin to Odessa and Yeames: the
British flag entering the Black Sea (1797-1807)
19.30. Dinner at an Old Mansion of Chalki
3. Gerasimos Pagratis, (University of Athens, Greece)
The Ottoman Empire and the Ionian maritime enterprises (c. late 18th-early 19th century.)
22.30. Return to Katabas by boat
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.30
THALES PROGRAMME
Reinforcement of the Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-institutional Research and Innovation
Ionian University: “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 18th-20th c.
Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy”
Session VI - Trading with Constantinople and the Ottoman
Empire (b)
Chair: Meltem Toksöz
3. Katerina Galani, (Ionian University, Greece)
The Greek business group between Constantinople and
the City of London in the mid-19th century
1. Igor Lyman and Victoria Konstantinova, (Berdyansk
State Pedagogical University, Ukraine)
Ottoman vector of trade and shipping of Azov sea-ports in
19 century
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
2. Constantin Ardeleanu, / Lower Danube University
(Universitatea Dunărea de Jos)
Constantinople and the beginnings of steamship
in the Black Sea (1830s-1850s)
3. Socrates Petmezas, (University of Crete, Greece)
The construction of Black Sea statistical series
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30
Session VII. Ottoman Merchants in the Black Sea trade
Chair: Maria-Christina Hadjiioannou
1. Sophia Laiou, (Ionian University, Greece)
The Ottoman Greeks and the Black Sea Trade,
end of the 18th-beginning of the 19th century
2. Mustafa Batman and Şahica Karatepe, (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
A Brief History of a Muslim Merchant Family: Nemlizades
17.00-19.00
Session VII. Ethnoreligious identity and social life
Chair: Sophia Laiou
1. Hamdi Özdiş, (Düzce University, Turkey)
19. yüzyılın sonlarında Doğu Karadeniz’de yönetim ve
iktidar ilişkilerinin yapısına dair bazı gözlemler [Some
Observations on the Structure of Power Relations and
Ottoman Administration in the Late NineteenthCentury Trebizond Vilayet]
2. Zeynep Türkyılmaz, (Dartmouth College, USA)
Hiding in the Mines: Crypto-Christian Miners of Ottoman Trebizond (1700-1918)
3. Vangelis Kechriotis, (Boğaziçi University, RCAC/Κοç
University, Turkey),
Greek-Orthodox in politics and the economy of the
Black Sea port cities at the end of the Empire
4. Elia Kyfonidou (Independent Scholar), The GreekOrthodox communities of Pontus at the beginning of the
twentieth century: A glimpse at the Greek bibliography
20.00 Dinner at Boğaziçi
THALES PROGRAMME
Reinforcement of the Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-institutional Research and Innovation
Ionian University: “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 18th-20th c.
Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy”
Maria Konstantinidou - Kostas Karalis and Gelina
Harlaftis, (Ionian University, Greece)
The administration and progress of the project
Sunday 26 October
Boğaziçi University (Demir Demirgil Salonu)
10.00-12.00
Session VIII- Linkages and integration to the global economy
Chair: Evrydiki Sifneos
1. Per Kristian Sebak, (Bergen Maritime Museum, Norway)
Immigration from Odessa to New York, 1892 to 1924
2. Maria-Christina Chatziioannou, (IHS/HNRF)
The port of Trieste and its Black Sea merchant routes at
the end of the 19th c.
3. Eka Tchkoidze, (Ilia State University Tiblisi, Georgia)
Batumi’s Free –Port (Porto-Franco) system: advantages
and disadvantages for further economic development
4. Alexandra Papadopoulou, (University of Bocconi, Italy)
The integration of Southern European Russia in the new
global economy of the 19th century and the role of foreign
business.
12.30-13.00